The southeast province is mountainous, but the road to Shangyan City is flat, and the highway is opened, but when you arrive at Xiashe Township, Dingxian County, Shangyan City, the road is difficult to walk, and it is mostly a mountain road, winding, the terrain is treacherous, and it is rare to see the flat land.

But don't underestimate this land, it was originally an old revolutionary area and a famous general's land.

"It's not far away, and we're there." After driving for more than three hours, I finally arrived at Xiashe Township, and although the road leading to Tujia Village in Xiashe Township has been built with a cement road, this highway is a single-lane road, and the flamboyant Land Rover is nothing, and it can barely cross this mountain path, but Lao Yi drives a truck and carries goods, which is a little difficult.

But in order to get the things to the left-behind elderly people as soon as possible, they decided to rush overnight.

The straight-line distance from Xiashe Township to Tujia Village is only more than ten kilometers, but the car drove ricketerily, coiled around, and drove for more than an hour before arriving at Tujia Village.

When I arrived in the village, sure enough, as Tang Qiqi said, as soon as it got dark, the village was basically dark, there were very few people on the country roads, and occasionally one or two motorcycles passed by, and people on foot could not see it, you should know that at this time it was only two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, and the basic people who worked outside should come back.

However, along the way, although some houses were built well, there were basically few people in sight, and there were some rice paddies on both sides of the country roads, but many fields were basically overgrown with barren grass and had been abandoned.

Shangyan City is actually not far from Meining City, and the economy is also good, but this kind of rural village has a little economic capacity with the intensification of urbanization. I'd rather leave my hometown and go to a nearby city to buy a house and settle down, rather than come back, and those with slightly worse economic ability have to go out to work. Over time, this kind of Tujia Village-like road is inconvenient, and the small village far from the city has basically become a dead village.

Those who are willing to stay in the village. Some are only sixty or seventy years old, with no education and no skills. The elderly who are unable to establish themselves in the city, and some migrant workers who go out to work are left at home for their parents and children.

Naturally, as soon as the young laborers were scarce, there was no one to plant the fields, the old people were reluctant to move around, and they could not move, and although the whole village still lived in a few hundred people, it was already quiet and desolate.

As you pass by some houses built along the road, you can occasionally see one or two with cloudy eyes. The old man, who was sitting quietly at the door of the house on crutches, watched curiously as the two cars driven by Zhang Yang and Lao Yi rumbled into the village with his slightly dull gaze.

The Tu Dagen that Tang Qiqi said was the original village party secretary in the village. It has been more than ten years since he retired, and he originally had the opportunity to go to the city with his son, but at the beginning of last year, his son was in a car accident in the city and died, and Tu Dagen only had one son. The son did not marry a daughter-in-law, the wife died very early, and a daughter has married far away.

Therefore, he can only live alone in a fairly large house, although he has some money, and the government will give him some living subsidies, but Tujia Village is still some distance from Xiashe Township, and the road is not easy to walk, so even if he has money, he can't buy anything, and he has to go to the field to farm and raise some rice himself.

It is said that there are many people in Tujia Village who are similar to him, and this Tu Dagen thought of a way to take some lonely old people to his home, and his home became a nursing home in Tujia Village.

But people together, boredom can be solved, but what is the most critical thing for people, that is, the stomach, the stomach is out of stock, people are not people, more than a dozen old people eat and drink, it is a troublesome thing, they are old and frail, where to get these, fortunately, sometimes the young people in the village look at them pitiful, and help them on weekdays, or Tu Dagen relies on some previous relationships to find some units to take care of.

Tu Dagen was a soldier in his early years, and his body was quite tough, and when Zhang Yang saw him, he found that the old man was quite talkative.

As soon as he saw Zhang Yang and Tang Qiqi, he immediately greeted him with a smile.

"Xiao Tang, I finally saw you, you either send someone every month, or come in person, but this month I haven't seen anyone for a long time, I also think, presumably your company is at the end of the year, there are more orders, too busy, I didn't expect that in this busy schedule, you can still find time to come... Who is this? Tu Dagen looked at Zhang Yang, and suddenly became curious.

"Uncle Tu, I'm her boyfriend!" Zhang Yang grabbed in front of Tang Qiqi and said, Tang Qiqi beside him was so anxious when he heard the words that he twisted his back fiercely, and scolded in a low voice: "Stinky guy, what nonsense are you talking about?" ”

"Boyfriend?" Tu Dagen's ears are not good, and it was already dark at this time, when he heard the words, he immediately looked at Zhang Yang with a smile, looked left and right for a long time, nodded frequently, and praised him: "Yes, Xiao Tang, your vision is good, this young man is very energetic, sword eyebrows, good, good, by the way, young man, what's your name?" ”

"Uncle, my name is Zhang Yang, the bow is Chang Zhang, and the famous Yang is famous." Zhang Yang replied humbly.

"Good name, Xiao Tang, I think you are really talented and beautiful, a natural pair."

Tang Qiqi looked at Zhang Yang speechlessly, now she is really not good at refuting, after all, it was Zhang Yang who brought the things over with old intentions, and she and Zhang Yang did get off the same car, and besides, this stinky guy took his hand as soon as he got out of the car, even if Zhang Yang didn't say it, Tu Dagen wouldn't be able to see it.

"Come in and sit." Tu Dagen greeted them at the door for a while, and hurriedly welcomed them in.

Lao Yi and his two subordinates hurriedly removed the truckload of bedding, rice, clothes, fruits, fish and meat, etc., as well as some couplets.

In fact, the value of these things has far exceeded Tang Qiqi's previous budget by several times, almost enough for these old people to use for eight years, but Zhang Yang didn't mention it to Tang Qiqi.

After taking a seat, Tu Dagen made them a pot of tea and ate together, and it was more than ten o'clock in the evening, and they wanted to rush to Wu Village, Gordon City overnight, but they couldn't stand the retention of the old people in the village, and finally they decided to stay in Tujia Village that night.

However, although Tu Dagen's home is large, there are already many old people living in it, and there are not many places for them to live, and I don't know if Tu Dagen intentionally or unintentionally assigned a separate room to Zhang Yang and Tang Qiqi, and Lao Yi and his two subordinates also gave a room.

Zhang Yang looked at Tang Qiqi's face and was thinking about whether she would refuse directly, but he didn't expect Tang Qiqi to glance at Zhang Yang and said unexpectedly: "Then thank you Tu Lao." ”

She accepted it, which made Zhang Yang feel strange for a while.

"What, you're scared?" Tang Qiqi took advantage of Tu Dagen's inattention, stared at Zhang Yang and said with a smile, although this was the first time Zhang Yang had seen her smile, but this smile was not fun at all.

"Scared?" Zhang Yang glanced at her and smiled, "Look who's afraid of whom." ”

Tu Dagen's home is a three-story building, it is said that his son was quite rich in the early years, and built this house in Tujia Village more than ten years ago, probably in order not to let Tang Qiqi be wronged, Tu Dagen deliberately gave the best room in the house to Zhang Yang and Tang Qiqi to live in, and also gave Zhang Yang two sets of thirty sets of new bedding to them.

The room is on the third floor, and the balcony is very large, and there is a rattan chair on the balcony that can lie down, and some unknown flowers and plants are planted outside the balcony, and you can smell a faint fragrance when you smell it.

Although there was a smell of cold dew and frost, the air in the countryside was fresh, which was far from being comparable to the city, and when he entered the house, Tang Qiqi closed the door, and the lights were not turned on, and then walked to the balcony, Zhang Yang looked at her back, and walked out.

Knowing that Zhang Yang would follow, Tang Qiqi propped his chin on the railing of the balcony with both hands, looked out at the dark mountains opposite, as if talking to himself, and said lightly:

"More than ten years ago, Tu Dagen was the village party secretary of this Tujia Village, and his son was working in other places and was very good at making money...... However, with the resignation of Tu Dagen, followed by the unexpected death of his son, Tu Dagen guarded this huge house alone, living alone every day, some of the other left-behind old people were fine, at least their children were there, and there was some hope, but Tu Dagen was forever hopeless, his daughter married far away to a place where he didn't know the name of the place, what about his son, died, and he could only guard this empty house for the rest of his life, waiting until the day he died silently. ”

"Why did you suddenly tell me this?" Zhang Yang followed her, walked to her side, smelled the faint fragrance coming from her, supported his chin with his elbows on the railing, and also stared at the swarthy mountains in front of him, and asked.

Tang Qiqi didn't reply, still looking ahead, ignoring Zhang Yang's question, and continued: "Actually, originally he also had a happy home, with sons and daughters, at his age, it should be time for his grandson to wrap his knees around and take care of his old age, but it's a pity..."

"What's the pity?" Zhang Yang turned his head sideways, glanced at her, and asked again, Zhang Yang secretly said in his heart, if she didn't answer honestly this time, then she would directly block her cherry mouth and kiss her until she answered.

"Want to know? Then why don't you guess what I will do when I sleep in the same room as you at night? Tang Qiqi said with a smile. rq